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Midas 3.2.8In September, the Midas team released version 3.2.8. This release includes improved LDAP support, multi-factor authentication, and improved logging for auditing. In addition, there is now a plugin for algorithm dashboards, Apache Solr can be used as a search index, metadata can be extracted from DICOM data, and there is support for thumbnailing ITK […]

The Center for Advanced Modeling and Simulation (CAMS) at the Idaho National Laboratory offers an advanced visualization facility that includes a four-sided CAVE-style immersive display system, a large 3×3 tiled display, and low-cost immersive systems dubbed the IQ-station [5] (also see Figure 1). Given these immersive environments, the CAMS team has a vested interest in […]

Kitware Presents Python Tutorial at CVPR Over the summer at the CVPR conference, Kitware collaborated with Google Research to present the “Python for MATLAB Users” tutorial. The tutorial was taught by Matt Leotta, Eran Swears, and Patrick Reynolds from Kitware, and Yong Zhao and Varun Ganapathi from Google Research. The course provided a hands-on introduction […]

The ITK team is pleased to announce the ITK 4.2.1 release, which addresses some critical build and performance issues. This release contains key patches to address build errors on new compilers, important performance patches, and solutions to several WrapITK build issues. In this release, important performance gains were the result of efforts by community members […]

On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben, Eike, Eric and the rest of the CMake team from all around the world, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.9 is now available for download at:   http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: […]

On the Point Clould Library (PCL) site, they recently announced the release of the source code of the PCL plugin for ParaView. The Point Clould Library is an open-source project for 2D and 3D image and point cloud processing. With the PCL plugin, developed by Kitware, ParaView users can access the PCL algorithms from within […]

At the Direction des Applications Militaires Île-de-France (DIF) of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), France, an application-specific visualization tool has been developed to post-process the solutions to the numerical simulations calculated at CEA/DIF. On the visualisation side, this tool uses VTK and ParaView servers. Goals of the collaboration focused on adding new annotation capabilities […]

Kitware Hosts IEEE SciVis Contest DataKitware is hosting the IEEE SciVis Contest 2012 data on an installation of Midas, Kitware’s open-source toolkit that enables the rapid creation of tailored, web-enabled data storage. It is optimized for efficiently centralizing, indexing, and storing massive collections of data, providing the foundation for computational scientific research. In this regard, […]

At the recent CVPR conference, Kitware, in collaboration with Google Research, presented the “Python for MATLAB Users” tutorial. The tutorial was taught by Matt Leotta, Eran Swears, and Patrick Reynolds, from Kitware, and Yong Zhao and Varun Ganapathi from Google Research. The course was a hands-on introduction to using Python for rapid prototyping and computer […]

On June 21st Kitware presented at tutorial at CVPR 2012.  The topic of the tutorial was Python for MATLAB Users: Promoting Open Source Computer Vision Research This presentation was a collaboration between Kitware and Google Research.  Our goal was to teach MATLAB users how to migrate to an equivalent open source environment built around Python.  More […]

I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.9 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here:   http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Some of the notable changes in this release are: the new Ninja generator is now enabled by default on Windows added POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE target property, automatically adds -fPIC and -fPIE for compilers […]

This blog entry is the last in a series of three articles reporting on the results of our ongoing collaboration with Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Applications Militaires Île-de-France (DIF), France, where a domain-specific visualization tool based on VTK and ParaView server is developed. In the first article, we explained how we extended […]

This blog entry is the second in a series of articles reporting on the results of our ongoing collaboration with Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Applications Militaires Île-de-France (DIF), France, where a domain-specific visualization tool based on VTK and ParaView server is developed. In the first article, we explained how we extended the […]

ParaView 3.14 Released In late February, Kitware and the ParaView team released ParaView 3.14. This release features usability enhancements, improvements to the Plugin framework, new panels, and more than 100 other resolved issues. ParaView 3.14 features a redesigned Find Data dialog and Color Editor. The updated Find Data dialog makes it possible to use complex […]

With ParaView version 3.14 (released February 19th) comes a revamped data selection framework. The most prominent user-facing feature is the redesigned query dialog, which is available from the “Find Data” tool in ParaView’s Edit menu. Figure 1: Selecting each point in block 2 for which the magnitude of the velocity exceeds 2000. Figure 2: Highlighted […]

We began using Gerrit for code review in 2010 and a blog post from October detailed much of the early success in using it for the ITK project [1]. David Cole wrote about the new CDash@Home functionality being developed in CDash at the time [2], and we were able to integrate this with the event […]

Enhancements for 3D Slicer Funded by NIH Kitware received grant funding from the U.S. National Center of Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to further develop 3D Slicer. Slicer is currently funded by grants associated with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) and the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC), and […]

IGSTK User Group MeetingIn February the sixth annual IGSTK user group meeting was held in conjunction with SPIE Medical Imaging in San Diego, CA. This meeting is an opportunity for the IGSTK user and developer communities to come together and discuss updates on the toolkit and its use in the field. One of the highlights […]